Mistaken to think that Egypt occupies the second place worldwide in the imprisonment and repression of journalists and opinion makers, according to the Country, where the Arab Observatory for the Freedom of the Media report revealed high numbers of dead in the land of Her Majesty to the 14 killed since the coup, July 3, along with the arrest of 101 journalists behind bars the military, unlike the prohibition of publication and confiscation of newspapers raids, in 2015 to become the worst year in the history of the profession of research for trouble.
Arab Observatory for the Freedom of the Media, revealed in a press conference at the headquarters of "Hisham Mubarak" status through its annual report on the deteriorating situation and the decline of press freedom in Egypt during the past year, that Egypt ranked first in the press violations as a result of their increase varied between the four main files between detention and the arrest of journalists, denial of coverage, the physical assault on journalists, murder, and the ban and confiscation.
The Almrsd- in a statement Sm- that with the entry of the third year of the coup d'etat in Egypt intensified violations systematic of the freedom of the press, which has intensified after the election Sisi in the play's presidential election, which affected the press and media organizations supportive of military rule, such as "home" and "The Egyptian Today" and "The seventh day" and "constitution" which was confiscated some of their numbers.
The report added that the restrictions on journalists also long number of media workers and journalists who support the rule of Kabrahim Issa, Alaa al-Aswani and Amr Hamzawy and Abdel Halim Qandil, Magdi executioner and Solomon and Islam lacustrine and Tawfiq Okasha and who has been banned or prevent articles them of publishing political differences with the Palestinian Authority.
The report emphasized that bloodletting journalists did not stop during the 2015 because this year has seen the killing of four new reporters have joined the ten dead list since the third of July, bringing the death toll to 14 in the media, including journalist Mohamed Jalal, who was killed in Libya has shrugged off the power to investigate his death, the as described by the statement.
He explained that in terms of arrests witnessed in 2015 the release of 24 journalists and media workers, led by the journalists of Al Jazeera English three Peter Jristi and Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy, journalists Ahmad Jamal increase, and Ahmad Izz al-Din and Ahmed Tnobi and Mohamed Ali Hassan, and salutes behind.
In return, the authorities arrested 18 journalists and media workers, including Ismail Eskandarani, and Hisham Jaafar, Mohammad Batawi good igloo and Abu Bakr otherwise, and by adding these new prisoners to the list of prisoners who are still languishing behind the walls over the past two years, 101 journalist prisoners.
The report revealed 45 cases of physical abuse of correspondents field, most notably the murder of photographer Ahmad Jamal increase overseas recently from prison after 500 days behind the walls try, has also been monitoring 60 cases of verbal abuse and treated challenge correspondents field, were monitored around 1850 the case was denied coverage mostly by official bodies.
The statement stressed for monitoring the number nearly four times the figure mentioned when the two organizations has been largely due to the different standards in the press characterization, arguing that everyone who works in an important transfer news and photographed in accordance with professional standards and are paid for that news, regardless of affiliation or non-affiliation to the Journalists' Syndicate .
He pointed out that many of these prisoners face sanitary conditions extremely difficult, but faced with the slow murder inside Mhabsam, and denied the entry of medicines, and requires many of them to perform emergency surgery in a foreign hospital, and the rest needs to be treated humanely in their cells, also issued judgments arbitrary against journalists in person and in absentia, long a prominent media personalities such as Information Minister Salah Abdel-Maksoud legitimate and Mohammed Nasser and Moataz Matar and Ahmed Mansour.
He emphasized the Arab observatory on the need for the immediate release of prisoners of conscience and jailed journalists Until then demanding the transfer of the need for surgery to private hospitals, and the provision of humanitarian and health care for the rest of the jailed journalists, and demands respect for the law as guaranteed by the allocation of sufficient time for visits to families of relatives of prisoners.